SDKDDKVer.h missing, but WinSDK installed? (c++ header issues)

Question

So I recently returned to VC++ with .NET 4.5 (Visual Studio 2012 professional) due to various irrelevant reasons on a new PC after spending an eternity with web dev, python and c#. I'm pretty comfortable with the language as a whole, it's f**king beautiful in terms of syntax and I love the memory management freedom, pointers and references. I start up again with a "hello world" thing and BAM! Error.

As many other people get with this problem, I'm receiving the IntelliSense error when I try to compile and run:

cannot open source file "SDKDDKVer.h"" and the fatal error: "error C1083: Cannot open include file: 'SDKDDKVer.h': No such file or directory

I also have Visual Studio 2010 (C# Express) installed, perhaps that's screwing up some of my stuff. I've confirmed that my VC++ directories for incl and lib are all correct and that recommended by Microsoft and virtually any C++ developer. I attempted to install the most recent WinSDK (8.1) to get the header and all of it's functionality but I'm about 110% certain it's not in there. I'm installing the SDK for Win7 right now in hopes that it might reside in there (it's sure taking a long time though.)

My PC has the issue of terminally blue-screening only for any issue to be resolved upon leaving the machine alone for 15 minutes, so maybe it's a hard-drive issue?

Can any of you help? Absolutely any heads up, condescending, obvious or not will be appreciated a ton, and thanks for reading anyway.

EDIT: @MichaelBurr asked for the build log and I couldn't post it in its entirety at the bottom, so I figured I'd add it here.

Build started 14/03/2014 00:34:11.
 1>Project "c:\Users\Brandon\documents\visual studio 2012\Projects\ConsoleApplication4\ConsoleApplication4\ConsoleApplication4.vcxproj" on node 2 (Build target(s)).
 1>C:\Program Files (x86)\MSBuild\Microsoft.Cpp\v4.0\V110\Microsoft.CppBuild.targets(344,5): warning MSB8003: Could not find WindowsSDKDir variable from the registry.  TargetFrameworkVersion or PlatformToolset may be set to an invalid version number.
 1>ClCompile:
     C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 11.0\VC\bin\CL.exe /c /ZI /nologo /W3 /WX- /sdl /Od /Oy- /D WIN32 /D _DEBUG /D _CONSOLE /D _UNICODE /D UNICODE /Gm /EHsc /RTC1 /MDd /GS /fp:precise /Zc:wchar_t /Zc:forScope /Yc"stdafx.h" /Fp"Debug\ConsoleApplication4.pch" /Fo"Debug\\" /Fd"Debug\vc110.pdb" /Gd /TP /analyze- /errorReport:prompt stdafx.cpp
     stdafx.cpp
 1>c:\users\brandon\documents\visual studio 2012\projects\consoleapplication4\consoleapplication4\targetver.h(8): fatal error C1083: Cannot open include file: 'SDKDDKVer.h': No such file or directory
 1>Done Building Project "c:\Users\Brandon\documents\visual studio 2012\Projects\ConsoleApplication4\ConsoleApplication4\ConsoleApplication4.vcxproj" (Build target(s)) -- FAILED.

Build FAILED.

Time Elapsed 00:00:00.12

Answer 1

If above information couldn't solve your problem, I am proposing below steps from my VS2013 experiences:

1. Select Project Properties>Configuration>VC++ Directories>Include Directories and add that: c:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v7.1A\Include
2. Select Project Properties>Configuration>VC++ Directories>Library Directories and add that: c:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v7.1A\Lib

After that configuration I had problem about rc.exe link error. For this problem one more thing is needed:

3. copy RC.exe and RcDll.dll files from C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v7.1A\Bin and past them to C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 12.0\VC\bin After all those configuration steps, you can build a simple "Hello World!" example and run if you are lucky.

Answer 2

This sometimes happens when you add a path for your include or library and delete the original ones that are already written in the project properties.

You should not remove the old path for include or lib directories, such as $(VCInstallDir)include; $(VCInstallDir)altmfc\include; $(WindowsSdkDir)include; $(FrameworkSDKDir)\include;

The same thing is for lib path just replace each include by lib.

Best Regards